Guest:
Kent Dodds
@kentcdodds
Kent C. Dodds talks with Dave Rael about teaching and learning, being lit up, podcasting, and optimizing your efforts
Kent C. Dodds works at PayPal as a full stack JavaScript engineer. He represents PayPal on the TC39. He’s actively involved in the open source community as a creator and contributor. He's an Egghead.io instructor, Frontend Masters instructor, and Google Developer Expert. He's happily married and the father of three kids. He likes code. He cares about craft, design, tools, and architecture. He likes to talk about it. Come chat with him :-)
Chapters:
1:24 - Dave introduces the show and Kent C. Dodds3:21 - Kent's involvement with TC396:30 - Kent's interest in teaching10:46 - Ken'ts attitude of sharing what he's doing and avoiding attachment to code12:48 - Kent's podcasting experience16:43 - Kent's path to JavaScript and becoming lit up23:21 - Kent's story of failure - reproducing a XSS vulnerability in production; contracting interview performances27:39 - Kent's success story - leaving behind a maintainable infrastructure31:34 - Ken'ts motivations for switching from Angular to React34:30 - How Kent stays current with what he needs to know36:43 - Kent's book recommendations37:57 - The things that have Kent most excited42:25 - Kent's top 4 tips for delivering more value44:53 - Keeping up with Kent
Resources:
Kent's Blog
Kent's Content at Egghead.io
Frontend Masters
GenieJS
Not Your Grandma's Cookies
JSON Web Tokens
John Lindquist
The Changelog - First-time Contributors and Maintainer Balance with Kent C. Dodds
Angular Air
JavaScript Air
Angular Air Episode 0 with the Angular Team
Todd Motto
JavaScript Air Episode 0 with Brendan Eich
The Changelog - JavaScript and Robots with Raquel Vélez, a.k.a. rockbot
slice-js
Glamor
Glamorous
Zero to 60 in Software Development: How to Jumpstart Your Career - Forward 4 Web Summit
Kent's book recommendation:
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Simon Sinek
Holy Bible: King James Version
THE BOOK OF MORMON - THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST LATTER-DAY SAINTS
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning - Peter C. Brown
Kent's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
Consume as much information as you can and make clear decisions about what you want to dive deep on
Build stuff with your chosen pieces
Take your learning and teach it to others
Be nice and be inclusive
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